Visualizing a Multilingual College Experience - Article & Spot Illustrations
This illustrated article was created during the Obvi Young Creative Fellowship 2020 (Sponsored by Obvi Design) a fellowship centered around telling the stories of BIPOC youth. Obvi Young Creatives answer the question “How might we support BIPOC Youth early on in their careers?” in various physical and digital media. All research, writing, and illustrations by Ashley Womack 2020.
During my final year as a student at Pratt Institute, I became interested in the concept of Language Justice — the idea that everyone has a right to be heard regardless of the language they want to speak. I centered my final capstone project around this idea and explored the possibilities of editing public visual landscapes to make an area more multilingual-encouraging. All proposals set forth in this writing are based on my capstone design research &cultural probe, my experiences, and my colleagues’ experiences while attending Pratt Institute. This article builds off of the research in that capstone project, and asks readers to imagine what a truly diverse educational experience looks like. It begs the questions: Who does higher education cater to? Who feels invited? Who feels comfortable? What do steps towards a better future look like?
Read the full opinion article on Medium.com: https://ashwomack.medium.com/visualizing-a-multilingual-college-experience-390c534d778b
